Gedi

Good (+) publisher’s original thick card covers with titles in black on the front cover. A few marks on the front cover. Rear cover foxed. Light wear to the four corners. 33pp with 8 black and white illustrations and a folding plan of Gedi in a pocket on the inside of the rear cover. Some very slight scattered foxing but otherwise the text is in very good condition. From the library of G. Philip Rivington with his bookplate on the front paste-down. Signed by the Author on the front free endpaper.

 A guide to the ruins of Gedi near the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya. Gedi is one of many medieval Swahili-Arab coastal settlements that stretch from Mogadishu, Somalia to the Zambezi River in Mozambique. The site of Gedi includes a walled town and its outlying area. All of the standing buildings at Gedi, which include mosques, a palace, and numerous houses, are made from stone, are one-story, and are distributed unevenly in the town. There are also large open areas in the settlement which contained earth and thatch houses. Stone "pillar tombs" are a distinctive type of Swahili Coast architecture found at Gedi as well.